noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Tim's fancy hairdo was an affectation left over from his younger days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pretty, rustic affectation of innocence that, to such as can not see into her, may pass well enough.
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Choose your phony accent, your affectation , the Stetson of country or the hoodie of rap.
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He has a bit too much affectation and too little prudence....
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He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation , but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
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If there was one thing that he hated fervently it was affectation and cant.
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It's an affectation I have.
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She has no affectation I am sure.
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Tact, in eighties Britain, has become an affectation .